Cottage Cheese

Sun-dried tomatoes add quick, inexpensive color and savory sweetness to our creamy thyme and mushroom sauce, while fragrant rosemary perks up our earthy sweet potato and onion toss. One serving of this meal provides more than half of your daily value of protein. Your body needs protein to build and repair cells and muscles, and it's also needed to maintain the health of your hair and nails.

This classic English staple, which is often loaded with calories, fat and sodium, gets a makeover by swapping out the ground beef for protein-rich lentils and tasty broccoli. Like all legumes, lentils are high in protein and fiber. The insoluble fiber found in lentils improves digestion, therefore helping to reduce the risk for diverticulosis, a common digestive disorder in elderly people. The soluble fiber found in lentils helps trap bile and carry it through the digestive tract. Plus, we’ve made the traditional mashed potato crust even tastier (and healthier!) in our Clean Eating recipe by mashing savory sweet potatoes and cottage cheese along with the redskins.

The success of the homemade potato chips in this $2 dish really depends on your knife – sharper knives cut thinner slices for crispier chips! Toss your chips with dill only after they've come out of the oven so the dried herb doesn't burn.